Facebook Tracker: Feature Growth
Facebook stock (FB) was trending upward in midweek trading, with mid-day values on Wednesday (Feb. 8) rising 1.68 percent from the previous day’s close, up to $134.06. Though the numbers haven’t seen...
View ArticleMessenger Powers Chatbot Payments For ATB Financial
Today’s eCommerce world keeps getting faster and faster. The latest development in eCommerce payments is the fusion of the banking industry with chatbots. ATB Financial has announced its plans to join...
View ArticleFacebook Tracker: Riding High
Facebook stock (FB) looks to finish off February on an upswing. The social media giant closed out last week with shares trading at $135.44. Monday opened a bit below, at $135.27, though prices leveled...
View ArticleChatbots Bringing On Business Operations Revolution?
Whether someone is buying a product, attending a concert or renting a truck to move furniture, there’s some level of customer service involved. It’s the one major thread running through nearly every...
View ArticleFacebook Tracker: Story Wars
Facebook (FB) stock has continued its growth trend well into March, hitting new highs just above $140 during Friday (March 17) morning trading. At the time of writing, one share of FB was worth...
View ArticleFacebook Messenger Launches Group Payment Service
Facebook just made splitting the check at dinner easier with the announcement that Messenger can now support group payments. According to TechCrunch, the free service, which for now is only available...
View ArticleFacebook Tracker: Pay The Messenger?
Facebook Stock (FB) has held steady at values set in the first half of March. While the end of last month saw new heights above $140 as Facebook’s additional video strategies came to the forefront in...
View ArticleFacebook Messenger 2.0: Lotsa Bots
Innovator, entrepreneur and architect of “the greatest show on Earth” P.T. Barnum famously said, “There is no such thing as bad publicity.” This week, going into its F8 conference — Facebook’s annual...
View ArticleWells Fargo Announces Messenger Chatbot Plans
Wells Fargo recently announced plans to test a chatbot for Facebook Messenger — the latest in a recent string of payments providers and financial institutions to break into the bot space on the social...
View ArticleMoneyGram Debuts Sendbot For Messenger At F8
Updates continue to roll in from the ongoing Facebook F8 developer conference in San Jose. One major trend coming out of this year’s event is a focus on Facebook Messenger, chatbots and payments....
View ArticleWestern Union Teams Up With Facebook Messenger For Global Money Transfers
Score another win for Facebook with Western Union’s latest announcement at the social media giant’s F8 annual developer conference. As we’ve reported, there have been various companies partnering up...
View ArticleFanContact Launches Facebook-Enabled Marketing Software
With more companies looking to sync up with Facebook’s Messenger for customer service and promotional efforts, it should come as no surprise that the social media giant has updated its app to enhance...
View ArticleFacebook Tests X-App Notifications
Facebook has confirmed that it’s testing out a feature that would show notifications from Facebook, Messenger and Instagram and allow users to instantly switch between them. “We are conducting a very...
View ArticlePlum Banks Future On Facebook Messenger
Plum, a London-based FinTech startup using AI-driven or “smart” chatbots to help people manage their finances, is betting that Facebook Messenger will become the go-to place for people to handle their...
View ArticleAI/BOT: Man Versus Artificial Intelligence
Since the advent of technology, the age-old battle of man versus machine has been an issue. Whether it’s televisions entering homes in the mid-20th-century or personal computers coming onto the scene...
View ArticleLive More. Bank Less. Bot Smarter.
Banking can be a bit of a chore, but with artificial intelligence (AI) getting smarter and smarter, it may not have to be one for long. Bank of America has Erica (or will soon), JPMorgan Chase has COIN...
View ArticleAlibaba Is Taking On Alexa, Google Home, DingDong and Little Fish With New...
In its latest effort to keep up with its American big brother Amazon, China’s eCommerce giant Alibaba has announced the debut of its own smart home speaker. With this addition, each of the Frightful...
View ArticleFacebook Expands Beta Test Of Messenger Ads
Facebook Messenger, which started testing display ads with some users in Thailand and Australia in January is expanding its global beta test, including the number of brands that can run ads via the...
View ArticleAI/BOTS: AI’s Impact on The Digital Retail Revolution
The digital retail revolution is well underway. Fusing technology into in-store experiences has officially gone mainstream, and retailers are looking for ways to go beyond the traditional mobile app....
View ArticleMastercard Taps APIs With An Eye Beyond Plastic
In a classic scene from the 1967 Mike Nichols film The Graduate, protagonist Benjamin Braddock is pulled aside and given advice for his future that can be condensed to a single word: “Plastics.” If the...
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